Naval
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Life and Death at Cape Disappointment: Becoming a Surfman on the Columbia River Bar
$29.95 Add to cartThe ocean is one of the few untamed places on earth–unpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there. For this reason, people remain fascinated by its tides, currents, and mysteries. Life and
- Author: D’Amelio, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149305872X
- Language: English
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Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War 1914-18
$28.95 Add to cartClash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more than a catalog of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explor
- Author: O’Hara, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1682476251
- Language: English
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Remembering United States Naval Academy
$19.99 Add to cartWith a proud tradition reaching back to its founding in 1845, the United States Naval Academy today pursues its role as the nation’s premier institution dedicated to teaching and molding the naval lea
- Series: Remembering
- Author: Cheevers, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1683368975
- Language: English
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A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, m… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1451645090
- Language: English
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The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
$30.00 Add to cartEighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway
The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and ai- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701372
- Language: English
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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
$49.95 Add to cartSubmarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposi… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885308
- Language: English
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Vectors: Heroes, Villains, and Heartbreak on the Bridge of the U.S. Navy
$36.00 Add to cartThomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy where his career began. His experience, as… [more below]
- Author: Modly, Thomas B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642257036
- Language: English
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U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight
$23.99 Add to cartFrom January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic” off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hat
- Series: Military
- Author: Bunch, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137677
- Language: English
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Tales from Monkey Mountain: Stories of the Vietnam War
$23.95 Add to cartBehind the scenes of America’s first TV war.
“With the proliferation of televisions, news networks strived to have the most exciting, dramatic, and attractive stories. They competed for the finest repo
- Author: Hoyt, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1977260454
- Language: English
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Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
$22.00 Add to cartHalsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero…. [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143377
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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Fair Winds, Following Seas, and a Few Bolters: My Navy Years
$17.95 Add to cartFrom rural Michigan through Georgia Tech, Aviation Officer Candidate School, flight training, two Western Pacific cruises, and as an instructor pilot, Lt. McKenna met and overcame multiple obstacles i
- Author: McKenna, Stephen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1646638506
- Language: English
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America’s First Frogman
$28.95 Add to cartAlthough bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and… [more below]
- Author: Bush, Estate Of Elizabeth Kauffman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1591140692
- Language: English
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War of the Whales: A True Story
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1451645023
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
$18.99 Add to cartAs heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and “engaging history” (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive vict… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031649206X
- Language: English
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USS Olympia: Herald of Empire
$26.95 Add to cartThe USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she bec… [more below]
- Author: Cooling, B. Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591141265
- Language: English
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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
$27.95 Add to cartA leading naval and military historian presents the first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theaters. Vividly recreates the experience of submarine and anti-submarine warfare… [more below]
- Author: Padfield, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0471249459
- Language: English
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Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
$18.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett–a US Navy destroyer that sustained the mos… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982147849
- Language: English
